DEVELOPMENT OF DROSOPHILA RETINA, A NEUROCRYSTALLINE LATTICE
DEVELOPMENT OF DROSOPHILA RETINA, A NEUROCRYSTALLINE LATTICE
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DOI:
10.1016/0012-1606(76)90225-6
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
2.7
通讯作者:
BENZER, S
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作者:
READY, DF;HANSON, TE;BENZER, S
Pattern formation in the Drosophila retina proceeds by the recruitment of cells, along a morphogenetic front, into a lattice. At the advancing front marked by a dorso-ventral furrow in the eye imaginal disk, cells organize into ommatidial precursors, each containing cells destined to become photoreceptors 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. Behind the front, a mitotic wave produces photoreceptors 1, 6 and 7, plus the remaining cells needed to complete the ommatidia. During the 3rd larval instar, the front sweeps anteriorly across the eye disk, leaving a highly ordered pattern in its wake. Preceding the dorso-ventral furrow is a groove that bisects the eye disk into dorsal and ventral halves and presumably plays a role in establishing the equatorial symmetry line. Cell lineage plays little role in pattern formation in the eye. Genetic mosaics show that the cells of each ommatidium are not derived from a single mother cell; the cells appear to be recruited at random at the morphogenetic front. Similarly, the mirror symmetry above and below the equator is not established by a clonal mechanism; a single clone can contribute cells to ommatidia on both sides of the equator.